Sentences with phrase «labour voter»

Tony Benn et al would turn in their graves knowing what is happening to the Party and where certain MPs still do not know how the labour voter thinks or indeed ticks.

I've been a Labour voter for over 40 years and I've just been rejected by the party as a supporter.

I am a Labour voter, a party member and a union member, but we must accept that mere loyalty to beliefs and ideals is not enough.

Yesterday, canvasing the streets of Stevenston in North Ayrshire, a former Labour voter told me that the only way forward was for Scottish Labour and the SNP to merge.

The elector would benefit from greater choice, fairness and representation - a Labour voter in darkest Surrey as much as an embattled Glasgow Tory.

Even if Labour gave a free vote, which is unlikely, the pressure from Labour constituency activists (not Labour voters) would force most Labour MPs to vote for the change: just a few people of principle will hold out.

Rather than have 200 hardcore Tories in a constituency select a hard - right Tory MP, Conservative candidates would have to moderate their views and platform in order to appeal to non-partisan and even Labour voters if they want to pass the primary.

Hilary Benn has made it clear he'd prefer to see Labour have its own, separate campaign targeting the concerns of traditional Labour voters.

Scottish Tories currently campaigning for local government elections on May 4th tell stories about encountering long - standing Labour voters in local authority areas not exactly known for being friendly to Conservatives and who now declare their intention to vote for «Ruth» and the Tories.

That one - in - four Labour voters still think he is doing a bad job is not great for Miliband, especially when you compare it to Tory voters, 94 % of whom say Cameron is doing a good job.

The people Nuttall is hoping to target — long - term Labour voters who're dissatisfied with the current state of affairs and looking for change — are unlikely to feel particularly fondly about his reheated Thatcherism.

«What I've found fascinating in the last week of this process has been the numbers of people — probably not in the Labour party, may not even be Labour voters — who have written to me to say thanks very much for speaking up against austerity and for speaking up against inequality in society,» he says.

Labour MPs are understood to have been told today that Remain needs a a 3 per cent swing among Labour voters to win.

It also shows how the party is very much in the business of trying to poach Labour voters as well as disgruntled Tories.

Crucially, they appealed to both disgruntled Conservative and Labour voters.

Furthermore, the Secretary of State for Scotland, Alistair Carmichael MP, has warned that there are large numbers of undecided former Labour voters in the «urban post-industrial belt of Scotland».

«Today I am setting out a positive agenda for Labour voters - reasons why Labour voters should vote Remain and the patriotic case for remaining in Europe.

Any attempt to win over Labour voters, or voters in the North or Scotland appears to have been abandoned.

Whether it was the people of the North East rejecting politicians plundering their earnings to pay for white elephant vanity projects, working class voters rejecting apparently over-generous welfare arrangements for EU migrants, or left leaning Labour voters rejecting the supposed excesses of the capitalist system, fairness lies at the heart of British anger.

In the long - term, it is possible that the Conservatives will start to appeal to these disaffected Labour voters.

It occurs that I should probably source that - Observer, 23 Dec 2007, column by Denis MacShane entitled «An open letter to Nick Clegg»: «Before the 2001 election, I urged Labour voters in seats where Lib - Dem candidates were best placed to beat off Conservatives to vote tactically.

The new leader will now make a concerted effort to woo disillusioned northern Labour voters by painting Jeremy Corbyn and his London - based allies as out of touch with ordinary working people.

In a 2012 YouGov poll for Prospect magazine, 94 per cent of Tory voters and six in ten (59 per cent) of Labour voters agreed that «the government pays out too much in benefits; welfare levels overall should be reduced».

He acknowledges that Corbyn faces a difficult challenge appealing to Labour voters on both sides of the Brexit fence.

In an independent Scotland governed by the SNP, Labour voters in Glasgow or Liberal Democrats in the Shetlands could make exactly the same complaint.

In contrast, of the 65 % of 2010 Labour voters who voted NO in the referendum, 75 % stayed with Labour in 2015, while only 13 % voted SNP.

Tim Farron heaped praise on Tony Blair today as he called on disaffected Labour voters to ditch their party and join the Lib Dems.

The attitude of most core Labour voters to the Labour Party probably could not be published on here.

As with the 35 % of 2010 Labour voters in Scotland who voted «yes» to independence, the Labour Party currently offers little to the 27 - 33 % of 2015 Labour voters in Britain who want to leave the EU.

Brexit is in some respects an even more potent issue for them because it brings together a wider group of the electorate, with pro-EU Conservatives and Labour voters wondering how to reverse the march towards the cliff's edge.

However, I predict that Labour's unwillingness to engage with a left - wing Euroscepticism could lead to the alienation of the roughly one - quarter to one - third of Labour voters who oppose British EU membership, leading many of them to turn away from the party at the next general election.

In his speech, the former prime minister says: «From now until 10 pm on 23 June, we will not rest and I will not stop explaining why nine million Labour voters have most to gain from remaining in the EU.

The Labour voters apparently inspired by feelings of powerlessness?

Tradition has it that rain is supposed to mean a low turnout by Labour voters, a truism that set us on edge when it became clear that all polling stations were reporting that turnout was unusually high.

Shaven - headed Scouser Nuttall recites the standard Ukip talk of going after Labour voters in Northern England but the social conservative, a supporter of judicial executions and opponent of abortions, will struggle to walk the talk..

The reason Labour voters are flocking to Ukip and the SNP is because they believe they will fight for them.

«You know Boris Johnson and Michael Gove are very divisive with old Labour voters in Rotherham.

We found some tentative evidence to suggest Labour voters had been less likely to actually vote than predicted but, even if this was the case, the effect would have been very modest.

While a majority of Labour voters backed Remain in the referendum, swathes of seats in the north and Midlands voted emphatically for Brexit.

If I'd have been on your side would have made this about Cameron much more, that would have helped with Labour voters.

Between a quarter and a third of Labour voters voted Yes in the referendum.

Over a third of Labour voters in 2015, where it went down to heavy defeat, said they would not vote for the party under him.

Having said that they could potentially take away socially conservative Labour voters.

More telling could be results coming in from Stockport and Salford, where Leave are expected to do well among traditional Labour voters.

Firmly in his sights, then, are disgruntled Labour voters across vast swathes of England and Wales.

Labour voters migrated to the SNP and Ukip.

Senior figures have blamed Corbyn for failing to mobilise Labour voters to support remaining in the EU, although their grievances are much longer standing.

Over the weekend, Alexander, the beleaguered Lib Dem MP and Chief Secretary to the Treasury, openly urged Tory and Labour voters in his Highland's seat to support his bid to hold it against an insurgent Scottish National party challenger, Highlands council leader Drew Hendry.

As in Scotland when pro-independence Labour voters switched to the SNP because of Labour's support for Cameron rendering Scottish Labour a pointless electoral alliance that can never be elected again.

Former Labour voters converted to the Yes cause account for practically all of the drop in the Scottish Labour vote.